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Snurb — Monday 1 November 2004 07:44

M/C Revamped

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I've spent the weekend updating the site of M/C - Media and Culture, for which I serve as General Editor. Phew - a lot of work, even though the placement students who designed the upgrade have done a fantastic job updating the look and feel of the site. The next step now is to upload the new issue, 'fame'; this should happen tonight, I hope.

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Snurb — Monday 4 October 2004 23:43

Update Complete

Well, that's that, more or less. The update is done and trackback should work now. Still a few minor things to iron out, but things should work OK...

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Snurb — Sunday 26 September 2004 18:50

Updating...

I'm going to try update my site to the latest version of Drupal today - skipping a few generations from 4.1 to 4.4.2... Let's hope for the best. If all goes well this will mean I can do trackbacks on the blog as well!

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Snurb — Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:28

Cyberactive Resistance?

Produsage Communities | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Intellectual Property | AoIR 2004 | Conferences |

The next (and last for this conference) session is about to begin, titled simply 'resistance?' Still a good turnout for the session even though people are now starting to leave the University of Sussex to catch their various planes. Andrew Ó Baoill starts this session with a study of MoveOn.org, a political group which started in 1998 around the Clinton impeachment campaign and enables participation in political action by members of the public.

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Snurb — Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:19

Ubiquitous Online News, Framing the Net, and Webcasting

An Early Start...The last day of AoIR 2004 has dawned on us. I've had the bad luck to have been given the 8.30 a.m. timeslot for my own paper - standing in an empty theatre at the moment waiting for people to finish their breakfast and make their way here. The session I'm in - ostensibly on 'online news and journalism/Internet vs. traditional media' - contains a pretty eclectic bunch of papers, so we'll see how many will show up in the end… They have ten more minutes.

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Snurb — Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:13

Blogs in Research and Teaching

And we're on to the last session of the day, which continues the blogging theme. I should probably note that not all papers at this conference are concerned with blogs - there are some eight or nine sessions running simultaneously here, themed around many other topics; as always, the topics I cover here are only the ones I was most interested in and do not necessarily represent the overall intellectual thrust of the conference accurately. (I'm sure the other bloggers here will present a very different version of AoIR 2004 in their blogs, even if admittedly many of them have also attended most of the blogging-related sessions…)

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Snurb — Tuesday 21 September 2004 14:30

Back in Blog

Produsage Communities | Blogs and Blogging | Mobile and Wireless Technologies | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | AoIR 2004 | New Media Arts | Conferences |

Back after lunch now, and we're in the next session on blogs and related media forms. Karen Gustafson makes the start, speaking on blogs and the creation of community, especially on political blog sites. She has selected four high-ranking political blogs to study, including Instapundit and others. They have a range of ideological positions and are themselves influential amongst blogs. However, this is of course a very narrow subset of all blogs.

Common discourses around blogs include the idea of an emergence of public spheres, but also a conceptualisation of blogs as symptoms of fragmentation. They are an important addition …

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